Barack Obama will ask his military commanders to come out with a plan to withdraw troops from Iraq,a day after being sworn in as President of the US,a top aide to the President-elect has said.

Yes, David Axelrod,Senior Advisor to Obama,told the ABC news channel in an interview if the President-elect would give that command when he meets his military commanders on January 21,a day after becoming the US President.

Well,that was something that hes consistently said, Axelrod said,when referred to the President-elects promise of withdrawing troops from Iraq in 16 months of coming to power.

Obama believes that that is a reasonable timetable. Weve moved a great distance from the time he started talking about that,and now were in an area where everyone agrees that we should be on a path to withdrawing those troops, he said. And he is going to begin that process,as promised,on that day, Axelrod said.